Improvement in fire-places and chimneys



n; CLARIDGE. FIRE-PLACE AND CHIMNEY.

No.179,52 3. Patented July 4,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DANIEL OLARIDGE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM T. HENDERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACES AND CHIMNEYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,523, dated July 4,1876; application filed April 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL CLARIDGE, of

the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Places andChimneys, of which the following is a specification; and I d herebydeclare that in the same is contained a full, clear, and exactdescription of my said invention, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relatesto a sheet-metal fireplace and chimney, having incombination therewith hot-air-conductiug passages or hot air chambers,provided with suitable dampers for diverting and checking the currentsof hot airat the different stories,.and is designed to be a completesystem of smoke and hot-air conducting passages and channels, and usedin place of the ordinary brick stack and tire place, and the hot-airpipes extending from thefire-place stove to the apartments in thedifferent stories of the house.

In the description of my invention which follows, due reference must behad to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification,and in which- Figure 1 is a partly sectional front view of theinvention; Fig. 2, aside view of the same, also partly in section 5 andFig. 3, a cross-section on line as J.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.

A is a box, preferably made of galvanized sheet-iron, and adapted bymeans ofthe flange a to be secured to the wall I) of the building. Thebox A is intended to. extend from the floor of the basement, or firststory, of the building to near the roof thereof, and is inclosed at theupper end, and made air-tight at the scams or joints of the sheets usedin its construction. The box A is strengthened and its form maintainedby means of diagonal braces 0. B is the fire-place, also made ofgalvanized sheetiron; and O, the chimney, extending from the fireplaceto a desired height above the roof of the building, and provided with acap at the top. The fire-place B is perforated'to allow of the passageof the heated air from the stove therein to the box A, where it isstored in the various chambers formed by the partitions (1, to beadmitted to the dili'erent apart- I ments in the building throughregisters. Ap-

ertures e in the partitions 61 form the means of con'nuunication betweenthe several chambers in the box A, and are each fitted with a damper,which may be closed when it is desired to cut off the hot air at thatpoint.

My invention as described is cheaply con structed, easily applied to anybuilding in course of erection, and occupies considerably less spacethan the ordinary brick chimney. It also utilizes the heat from thesmoke to heat the air in the box A, through which it passes.

By forming the box A of corrugated iron, and attaching to its outsidethe projecting stripsf, as shown, the box can be plastered and madetopresentthe usual appearance of chilnneysi Having thus described myinvention, what- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

A metallic combined lire-place, chimney,

and hot-air distributer, consisting of a box,

